{"title":"Paintings","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"riae-orange-van","title":"Riae (Orange Van)","description":"\u003cp\u003eI scrolled past her and went back. It was the sweat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt that point I decide nothing. I just save it, and then it sits in the archive until it starts asking for something. This one sat there for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen days at a time, a week of nothing, more days. That is not a technique. It is how long it takes me to look at one image properly. The photograph was built for three seconds of someone's attention. I spent weeks inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt some point it stops. Not because the painting is finished, but because I am. The image has been dealt with, it no longer pulls at me, and I can go on to the next one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething in this canvas is faintly vulgar and it never once tips into cheap. I painted her four times and I still cannot find the line it walks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/riae-suicide\"\u003eRiae Suicide\u003c\/a\u003e (@riae_). One of four canvases of Riae.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout this work\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal oil on canvas. 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Small, stubborn, and considerably tougher than her size suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet a line wrong where the body turns and the whole thing sits on top of her like a sticker. That is where the weeks went. It is also the only part of this painting I would want you to look at twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dailey-danique\"\u003eDailey Danique\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. 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At full size the angle does something to you that a photograph of it cannot. You have to be in front of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dakota-james\"\u003eDakota James\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout this work\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal oil on canvas. 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There was no idea behind this canvas, and I am not going to pretend there was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt that point I was still working out what I actually wanted to look at for weeks on end. Not what would sell, not what it meant. Just which images kept me at an easel and which ones let go after two days. This one held.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything since has come out of that question, so this is where the series begins even though it looks like it belongs somewhere in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dana-hamm\"\u003eDana Hamm\u003c\/a\u003e (@danahammofficial).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout this work\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal oil on canvas. One of a kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e — 120 × 80 cm (height × width)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e — one of one, signed. 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Something here is close to repellent and completely compelling at the same time, and weeks of oil paint did not separate the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/elisa-brandani\"\u003eElisa Brandani\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout this work\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal oil on canvas. 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There is no reason beyond that and I am not going to invent one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of four canvases of the same woman, and in three of the four her mouth is open. I did not choose that either. It is simply what she does, and painting her four times is how I found out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/kayleigh-swenson\"\u003eKayleigh Swenson\u003c\/a\u003e (@vikingbarbie).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. 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